Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Hobbies and Interests
Accomplishments
Awards
Timeline
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Sure Venkatapathi Raju

Sure Venkatapathi Raju

Berlin

Summary

Experienced iOS developer with 8+ years of experience creating top-notch, scalable mobile apps across diverse industries. Proficient in owning feature development, optimizing performance, ensuring accessibility, and designing UI architecture. Skilled at problem-solving, collaborating with product and design teams, and mentoring colleagues. Dedicated to writing clean, testable code and staying current on iOS advancements. Thrives in teams that value quality, accountability, and a passion for innovation.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior IOS Engineer

Zalando SE
12.2021 - Current
  • Develop high-quality, scalable features in Swift, using UIKit, and patterns like MVVM and VIPER, with a strong focus on clean code and testability.
  • Led critical performance improvements, reducing rendering time by over 60%, optimizing memory, and ensuring smooth UI for catalog-heavy screens.
  • Drove accessibility upgrades across key modules, implementing VoiceOver, semantic labels, and aligning with iOS A11y standards in collaboration with designers.
  • Actively contributed to technical design, architecture discussions for various features, and TDD/SDD reviews to ensure maintainable and future-proof solutions.
  • Led end-to-end delivery of critical features, aligning with stakeholders, product owners, and principal engineers; independently drove scope definition, technical design, and implementation to meet tight deadlines with minimal oversight
  • Conducted technical interviews and actively contributed to hiring decisions, helping shape a high-performing and collaborative iOS team.
  • Stepped in as interim team lead, managing planning, standup's, and leadership reporting — while balancing current roles and responsibilities.

Systems Analyst

Ivy Comptech Pvt Ltd (Entain Group)
05.2021 - 09.2021
  • Working as Senior iOS Developer on Poker Game for different labels Party poker, Bwin poker and various other brands.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designing core game modules and new features.
  • Correcting memory leak issues, finding and fixing application crashes and memory optimization
  • Code review - self and peer code review
  • Unit testing and documentation
  • Guiding and helping the junior members

Senior Programmer Analyst

iDrive Software (India) Pvt Ltd
11.2019 - 05.2021
  • Worked on Remote desktop application, RemotePC as a Mac & iOS Developer.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designing user interface and developing the given tasks
  • Correcting memory leak issues, finding and fixing application crashes and memory optimization
  • Fixing up the major bugs which are present for a long time
  • Code review - self and peer code review
  • Unit testing and documentation
  • Guiding and helping the junior members of the team

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
07.2018 - 10.2019
  • The main contribution was towards the review process of all architectural designs for each module of our application, along with development.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Design, development, and code review
  • Maintenance and further enhancements
  • Onsite-offshore coordination

Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
05.2016 - 06.2018
  • Developing the application on the MacOS and iOS front.
  • Responsibilities:
  • New feature development
  • Production bug fixes
  • Unit testing

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sathyabama University
Chennai
04.2016

Skills

    Languages:
    Swift, Objective-C, TypeScript, Java script, JSON, GraphQL, REST API's

    Frameworks & APIs:
    UIKit, Combine, Foundation, Swift Concurrency (Async/Await), Accessibility (VoiceOver, semantic elements)

    Architecture & Patterns:
    VIPER, MVVM, MVC

    Testing:
    XCTest, XCUITest, Snapshot Testing

    Tools & Platforms:
    Xcode, Instruments, Charles Proxy, Firebase, Fastlane, Git, Jira, Confluence, Figma

    Performance & Debugging:
    Instruments (Time Profiler, Memory Leaks), Logging & Crash Analysis, View Hierarchy Debugging, Memory Leak Resolution, Rendering Optimization

    Collaboration & Process:
    Agile/Scrum, Cross-platform collaboration (iOS ↔ Android ↔ Web), Technical Design Documents (TDD/SDD), Release Management, Interviewing & Onboarding

    Theming & Design Systems:
    ZDS (Zalando Design System), Dynamic Page System (DPS), Component-driven UI, Feature Toggles

    Other:
    Accessibility (WCAG, screen reader support), Feature Ownership, Mentorship, Release Boss responsibilities, Product & Stakeholder Alignment

Languages

English
Telugu
Hindi

Hobbies and Interests

Interested in PCB designing, Laptop/computer motherboard inspection, Programming in micro-controllers, Cycling, gym and running

Accomplishments

  • Took up complete responsibility of Clipboard copy-paste feature
  • Achieved dynamic frame rate to save bandwidth

Awards

Received "Insta-Award" at Infosys, Awarded as the "Most Valuable Player" at Infosys, Finalist in Hackathon Coding competition, which was conducted at DC level in Infosys

Timeline

Senior IOS Engineer

Zalando SE
12.2021 - Current

Systems Analyst

Ivy Comptech Pvt Ltd (Entain Group)
05.2021 - 09.2021

Senior Programmer Analyst

iDrive Software (India) Pvt Ltd
11.2019 - 05.2021

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
07.2018 - 10.2019

Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
05.2016 - 06.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sathyabama University

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